Amid swirling rumors of a forged shakeup following Saturday Evening Reside‘s wrapping of its historic fiftieth season final week, Kenan Thompson is hinting at a possible forged shakeup heading into the autumn.

Chatting with Page Six just lately, the comedian and longest-tenured SNL member known as the ending of Season 50, which included a flurry of anniversary actions and a prolonged Sunday particular, “bittersweet.”

“Particularly this 12 months the place it seems like there’s perhaps, probably, quite a lot of change subsequent 12 months,” he stated, including, “You need everybody to remain ceaselessly, understanding that individuals could also be making selections this summer time … it’s at all times such as you need your children to remain younger.”

With 22 seasons underneath his belt, Thompson additionally revealed that he has but to signal a contract for his twenty third, although he stays optimistic, he stated.

“You simply by no means know what the long run holds. I don’t wish to be in the way in which of another person or I don’t wish to be the stale previous man using the identical factor. That doesn’t actually occur that a lot at SNL however there’s no ensures, I assume,” he defined.

The finale final week, that includes host Scarlett Johansson and musical visitor Unhealthy Bunny, included loads of sly jokes about huge modifications, together with a throw-away line about Sarah Sherman being compelled out with out her data and a Weekend Replace joke swap the place co-anchor Michael Che had colleague Colin Jost learn a line threatening to take over longtime boss Lorne Michaels. “Retire, bitch! Let me run the present,” he quipped.

Regardless of an absence of ultimate goodbyes throughout goodnights, folks on-line couldn’t assist theorizing whether or not MVP Bowen Yang’s emotional hug with Sherman was indicative of his departure; nevertheless, he confirmed shortly afterward that the heartfelt show was about him “simply processing” the completion of the season.

However modifications are more likely to come with a 17-member forged that options six veterans who’ve been on the present for seven or extra seasons: Jost, Che, Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim and, in fact, Thompson.